Couch-bed.



l No. 775,876. PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

R. J. WAGNER.

GOUGH BED.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN.15, 1904.

No MODEL.

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.RICHARD J. 1V AGNER. OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSAIGNOR TO THE VAGNER SPRNG BED MANUFACTURING- OOMlANY, OF HOL- YOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, A. OORPORATlON OF MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,876, dated November 22, 1904.

Application led January l5, 1904. Serial No. 189,118x (No model.)

To f/,ZZ whom t 'Hetty concern.-

Be it known that l, RICHARD J. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States ol America, and a resident of Holyoke, in the county of -l-lampden and State of lVIassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Ylmprovements in Couch-Beds, ot' which the following' is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in couch-beds of the type comprising' a main and secondary bed-frame section, the latter being distensible relatively to the main section.

The invention particularly pertains to improvenients in the means 'for extending and withdrawing the secondaiy-bedframe section and to the means for guiding one frame in its movements relatively to the other and for holding the sections in either of their positions with rigidity in relation to each other.

The most prominent feature et' the invention is comprised in the combination, with the main section and the secondary section, transversely movable relatively thereto, of a lever mounted for a swinging movement and having a link connection with. the secondary section.

The invention furthermore and otherwise consists in combinations and arrangements of parts,all substantially as hereinafter described and claimed. y

The improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which#` Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved couch-bed-supporting structure or frame. Fig. Q is a cross-section as taken on the line 2 2, Fig. l.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the ditferent views.

A designates the main or primary irame, and B the secondary and laterally-distensible frame. The main frame A may be made in any suitable design having litness to the purpose and, as shown, consists of the opposite end pairs of legs a, the upper and lower c ossbars and c, the upper longitudinal rais or bars (Z, and the lower longitudinal tie-rods 7 f. The legs and upper cross-bars and the longitudinal upper rails or bars (l may be advantageously constituted by metallic tubing.

Near the ends ol the 'frame A are horizontal transverse tie rods or bars g y, the ends ol which are united to the upper longitudinal rails l (il.

Near the upper portions ol` the frame ends of the main section A are horizontal transverse and rigidly-connected metallic anglestrips 'n n., having a line ot' pert'orations through which are engaged the ends of spiral springs I v1, which make the mattress-supporting portion ot' the structure which is com prised in the main frame, although, of course, woven fabric or other common kind of mattressbottom may be incorporated in the struc ture.

The secondary frame iti comprises parallel longitudinal bars or rails we wt, shown as tubular, arranged parallel with, a little higher than, and or' slightly less length than the lon gitudinal rails Z (l of the main frame, and the ends of these rails (one ot' which when the bed is closed has a position in parallelism and proximity to the right-hand main-frame rail d and inside thereof, while the other has a po sition in parallelism and proximity to the left-hand main-frame rail and outside thereof) are united by the transverse metallic angular bars /t /t through the medium of angular blocks or shoes o a, which serve as tie-pieces and hold the angular transverse horizontal bars /t la, suitably elevated and so that the horizontal leal or [iange of each of these angular bars /t is overlaijiped by the corresponding leaf of the proximate angular bar. n, n, of the main frame, and the vertical leaves or `lianges of the two sets oit bars are in facewise contact or proximity, so that the outer ones serve as guards or guides in a measure for their upper surfaces next under and serve as supports and guides for the under surface of the inner longitudinal secondary-frame bar on..

D represents a lever which at its lower portion is mounted for a rocking movement at a lower part of one end portion of the mainframe section, and to the upper end of this lever a link-bar E is pivotally connected, the

same being pivotally connected to the secondary-frame section at the corresponding end thereof and at the portion thereof which adjoins its outer side.

As a means for operating the rocking lever it has at its lower portion integral or rigid treadle or leather extensions t t.

As a matter of approved design and advantageous provision the secondary-frame-actuating means is represented in duplication, the second rocking lever D2 at the opposite end from the one, D, being mounted on a common rock-shaft G, which is supported by and journaled through the lower cross-bars c c of the main frame, the connection by means of the link E2 with the opposite end of the secondary frame being made the same as represented at the near end in the illustration Fig. l, and the duplicated lever D2 likewise has the treadle-lever extensions, so that the bed may be distended or contracted by foot or manual force applied at either end of the bed.

It is hardly necessary to set forth that the end angle-bars /L /z sustain spiral-spring or other species of mattress-supporting structure, as partially represented in Fig. l, and in the same manner as provided in respect of the main-frame members, and the slight difference in the heights of the mattress-supporting equipments and c' is unappreciable in the full-sized structure.

The functions of the angular shoes 0 o may be perceived in comparing Fig. Q with Fig. l. In Fig. l the outer side pair of shoes are seen in supporting and stiffening engagements upon the top of the left-hand or outer mainframe longitudinal upper side rail, while in Fig. 2 the inner side pair of suoli shoes are vseen in supporting and stiifening engagements upon the top of the same side rail of the main frame, so that whether the bed is open or l closed one or the other of the side pairs of the shoes will have an engagement, as stated, for the manifest beneficial effect, and obviously l the outer pair of the shoes might be omitted l and with far less detrimental results than if i the inner pair were dispensed with.

The shoes in addition to acting as supportl ing or reinforcing means may serve, by frictional binding or engagement on the left-hand main-frame longitudinal bar D, as a retainer to prevent the secondary frame from being accidentally-displaced from either its fullydistended or its fully-contracted position.

Various changes and modifications may be made in the positions and arrangements of the parts without departing from the real invention here exemplified.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a distensible couch-bed, the combination of main and secondary frame sections arranged and relatively movable as described, a lever fulcrumed at its lower end on the main frame to swing in a vertical plane, said lever being provided at its base portion with treadle members extending in opposite directions from both sides of said lever, and means to connect the lever to the secondary frame.

2. In a distensible couch-bed, in combination, the main and secondary frames movable as described, the latter having inner and outer pairs of angular shoes arranged to alternately engage the outer longitudinal member of the main frame in the distension and contraction relatively of the frames.

3. In a distensible couch-bed, in combination, the main and secondary frame movable as described, the inner frame member of the latter carrying shoes adapted to engage the outer member of the main frame when the secondary frame is distended, to support said secondary frame.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD J. WAGNER.

.VVitnesses1 IVM. S. BELLows, A. V. LEAHY. 

